Google indexes redirect pages? Could something be added to the code of
redirect pages to tell the search engine spiders to skip over them?
Would this make searching for pages on Wiki through google work
better?
On 9/13/05, Fastfission <fastfission(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/13/05, Dan Grey <dangrey(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Indeed. Personally, I only use Google site search on Wikipedia (which,
incidently, had [[Sheep shearer]] as the first result for "Blade
shears").
I've noticed that Wikicities has a google search box below the
built-in search. I wonder if we could have the same?
Considering it pops a Google search box in whenever the search function has
been disabled, the code for this must already be out there.
The only problem I have with Wiki-via-Google is that Google also indexes
redirect pages. Not the end of the world, but it always looks a little
sloppy, but it's not really Google's fault.
I'm not sure what the effect would be of having redirects add a meta robots
noindex tag to them, but it might be worth thinking about.
FF
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